Band 6+: The pictures show information about average income and spending on food and clothes by an average family in a city in the US. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table represents an average family income in 2009 and 2015, and the vertical bar graph depicts expenditures of the different types of food and clothes, including fruit and vegetable, meat and fish, dairy products, other food, and clothes. The figures are given in US dollars.

Overall, it is immediately noticeable that families tend to achieve more income than their spending on food and clothes in both 2009 and 2015. Moreover, the majority of families’ expenditures was responsible for meat and fish in 2009, whereas it was fruit and vegetable in 2015.

In 2009, It can be seen that most of the people usually consumed meat and fish, spent for just under 30 dollars, followed by fruit and vegetable for just over 25 dollars, other food for 17.5 dollars, clothes for 15 dollars, and dairy products for 11 dollars.

On the contrary, in 2015, fruit and vegetable were consumed the most, accounting for 30 dollars, followed by meat and fish for 22.5 dollars, other food for 17.5, dairy products for just under 15 dollars, and clothes for 13 dollars.